The Product Manager Coach Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

Building trust with stakeholders isnt just a nice-to-haveits essential to preventing failed product launches due to poor stakeholder management. Poor stakeholder management is one of the leading causes of failed product launches, often leading to misalignment, unexpected delays, and increased costs. Speak their language.

Customer Feedback

UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Machine Learning (ML) is at the forefront, allowing UX teams to analyze vast amounts of user data to identify trends and predict behavior. This technology is crucial for developing conversational interfaces like chatbots, which help create seamless and interactive experiences forusers.

Feedback Software

BrainMates

JUNE 22, 2025

The Growth Stage of the Product Lifecycle (Part 3) By Jana Paulech At a Glance The growth stage of the product lifecycle begins after achieving product-market fit, requiring sustained exponential growth and a strong, evolving value proposition and positioning to capture and expand the target market.

User Testing

UX Planet

MARCH 29, 2025

There may be times when you question yourself, or someone on your team wonders, Why are we doing it this way? In any case, hang around because well go over why UX design strategy is crucial, how to create one, and what the problems arefor you, your team, and, most importantly, your customers. Heres the thingyoudo.

Feedback Software

Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 27, 2025

A widespread gap in career clarity: Many tech workers don’t know what they should be doing to continue developing in their careers. We then dug into people’s work experiences, including enjoyment, burnout, quitting intentions, career development thoughts, and manager effectiveness. expressing pessimistic views.

Technical Review

Messages that Matter

AUGUST 26, 2024

Start the message creation process by selecting two or three of your most engaged channel partners to a team to do the work plus your best partner manager. Make sure channel partners on the team will be able to gather information from at least one customer and ideally two or three. What are our product’s strengths and weakness?

Messaging

Tyner Blain

MARCH 2, 2025

Merging into a single customer base, looking for cost efficiencies from a combined team, increasing profits because of the reduction in price-competition in the market. ” Within that context, there are problems which exist which the team must address to make it work.

Customer Experience

Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Stripe They’re looking for a senior Product Manager to lead a pillar within our LPM Cost Optimization team. A collaborator experienced in working with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, and external partners.

Research Software

Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 23, 2025

In this blog, you’ll learn: What brand health tracking is and why it’s essential for modern brands The key metrics that reveal brand awareness, loyalty, and competitive positioning Best practices for consistent, high-quality tracking and reporting A phased approach to launching and optimizing your tracking program Let’s break it down.

Branding

Userpilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

According to a Deloitte report , positive customer experiences can lead to a 140% increase in spending compared to negative ones. Satisfaction in SaaS, therefore, isn’t simply about developing a nice product and launching it in the market. For instance, you can launch a CSAT survey after a customer interacts with your support team.

Customer Satisfaction

Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? You will collaborate with engineering, design, and business teams to deliver cutting-edge mobile solutions that improve efficiency, user adoption , and overall product performance. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

Analytic Tools

People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 30, 2025

job seekers for every open position, breaking the old "career ladder". This proactive approach can spark valuable conversations and align your team's efforts. Which is truly too bad as research shows organizations encouraging authentic self-expression see 28% lower turnover rates and 16% higher engagement. The pressure is real.

User Testing

People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It’s like developing a sixth sense for product success. How can we assess the level of product sense in PMs, designers, and developers? Failing to incorporate AI considerations into product sense can lead to missed opportunities and eroded market position. The secret? Want the rest? Subscribe now 1.

Product Research

BrainMates

JULY 2, 2025

They require a symphony of teams — Product, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Support — working together from idea to launch. This blog unpacks how product leaders can drive better collaboration by creating shared clarity, building transparent workflows, and being the empathetic glue between teams. The challenge?

Product Research

Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 6, 2025

Whether you’re planning six months ahead or sitting in discussions right now, here’s the process I’ve developed through trial and error with clients over 15 years. Start demonstrating how you’ll solve their specific problems for the company/team. What’s the history behind this position?

Development Team Review

UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Moreover, I would argue that designers are often in a less favourable position, as they typically lack both the final decision-making power (like managers) and the responsibility for implementing the agreed-upon solution (like engineers). Knowledge gaps create a mutual dependency that can only be resolved throughtrust.

Technical Advisors

Userpilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Meta is looking for an Operations leader to join the Product Data Operations (PDO) team. As a Manager on the PDO GenAI team, you will be responsible for managing a team of Project Managers to supply product teams with critical data and data labeling for Meta’s GenAI products. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

Analytic Tools

Userpilot

MARCH 17, 2025

For example, after employing Userpilot to scale its onboarding process and boost user activation rates by 100%, our customer Impala had this to say: “Userpilot enabled us to create personalized onboarding experiences without burdening our development team, leading to a 100% increase in user activation. – Gustavo M.

Analytic Tools

Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Sentiment analysis tools : Software that analyzes customer feedback, reviews, and social media mentions to determine public sentiment (positive, negative, or neutral). Feedback management tools : Apps for organizing, categorizing, and analyzing feedback from multiple sources to guide decision-making and product development.

Feedback Software

UX Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Let’s first look at what bad usability could be costing you, and how it could benefit your organisation. Potential negative impacts Here are some potential impacts of poor usability: Loss of business  — if your website is hard to use, some visitors will abandon it for a competitor.

User Testing

Userpilot

MAY 17, 2025

In fact, 52% of users have abandoned a mobile app due to poor localization , and over 60% of B2B buyers say theyll choose a localized product over a more expensive one in a foreign language. High churn may signal poor cultural or linguistic alignment. Everyone enjoys using mobile apps in their native language.

Analytic Tools

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Ensure that your data is clean and easily accessible, as poor data quality undermines the value of even the best customer success tool. This will allow teams to identify at-risk accounts and prioritize proactive outreach.

Data Visualization

Modus Create

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

With the average cost of developing a new drug at approximately $2.3 billion , streamlining and automating clinical development processes are perfect use cases for AI. McKinsey has estimated that AI technology could generate $60 billion to $110 billion per year in economic value for the pharma and medical-product subsectors alone.

Research Software

Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Start 2025 with the essential knowledge areas that give product managers more influence and success In 2024 I co-authored the 3rd edition of the Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge: A Guidebook for Product Innovation Training and Certification.

User Testing

Userpilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Many product teams fall into the same trapmistaking engagement for success. However, without qualitative feedback and behavioral insights, teams risk misreading signals, leading to frustration and churn. Reviewing CES survey feedback and session replays helps confirm whether the increase reflects positive adoption or usability issues.

Data Visualization

Productside

APRIL 30, 2025

Entire teams, downsized. Schedule standing chats with customer-facing teams. Not only will this reduce riskitll make your team faster in the long run. Your product isnt just the software your team is building. Invest in your positioning. Product roles are being cut. Lets set the record straight. If you dont?

Product Research

Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 21, 2025

We’re seeing AI already transforming people’s jobs, watching the methodical disruption of incumbents by beautifully crafted alternatives, and witnessing a few seismic shifts in how teams collaborate. Cursor and other AI-native integrated development environment (IDE) tools are rapidly emerging. 5% use Bolt.

Data Visualization

Userpilot

MAY 30, 2025

Ive also included the key metrics I track and recommend for every product team. Crash rate in the first session: Keep crashes under 1% of sessions to reduce uninstalls and bad reviews. Ive been there too You’ll learn to identify and use the right metrics to make smarter decisions. Retention rate formula.

Onboarding KPIs

UX Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Anyone in Product Ownership related discipline or those affiliated with Development, need to be aware of the time it takes to go through Research, Ideation, Iteration, before the subsequent steps of the Design Thinking process can occur (this impacts sales strategies, go to market strategies, communication outreach, just to name but a few tasks).

Research Software

Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2025

However, there are good and bad ways to approach this tactic. For instance, a project management app might promote team collaboration features to startups while emphasizing security and compliance to enterprise clients. If your announcement doesnt show any value for using the mobile app, then users will see no reason to do it.

Research Software

Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Mozilla: Director of Product, Firefox Growth Firefox is used by hundreds of millions worldwide, and the Director of Product for Growth plays a critical role in the product management team. Who would be a bad fit for this job?

Analytic Tools

Userpilot

JULY 14, 2025

No-code campaign management: Your marketing and product teams shouldn't need developers to launch campaigns or update messaging. Team collaboration tools: When multiple teams manage customer engagement, you need shared workspaces, clear permissions, and the ability to coordinate campaigns, keeping everyone aligned.

Analytic Tools

Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2025

As Lead Product Manager for Core Product, youll oversee state-of-the-art technologies, collaborate with top-tier engineers, and develop products that shape the industry. Who would be a bad fit for this job? PMs unfamiliar with highly technical teams and projects. Who would be a bad fit for this job?

Analytic Tools

Amplitude

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Next, your mental models process those events and inform the rules you’re going to use to make decisions—maybe you decide to build a new feature, modify an existing one, or change your positioning in the market. It could also be bad. This is no longer a situation where you can say, “Hmm, could be good—could be bad.”.

Customer Feedback

UX Planet

JUNE 23, 2025

In the course, they learned about the design process, worked in teams, and created a mobile app prototype from scratch. We agreed that after they finished and we discussed their solutions, I would tell them what position the task was for — whether junior or senior. Our biggest helpers can be developers and QA colleagues.

Research Software

Userpilot

JUNE 12, 2025

Userpilot solves this problem by making it easier for product teams to create in-app guidance themselves, without any coding. That’s why teams over at VideaHealth are now using Userpilot to build in-app resource centers filled with searchable FAQs, articles, how-tos, and walkthroughs. Multiply that by thousands of new users each month.

Data Visualization

Arkenea

AUGUST 4, 2025

Poor data management practices have derailed countless promising treatments, costing pharmaceutical companies billions in lost investments and delaying potentially life-saving therapies from reaching patients. Each phase presents unique challenges and requirements that effective clinical data management systems must address.

Data Visualization